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From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "OCaml List" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Sorted list
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 17:22:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000c01c7d77c$d5adeb50$6a7ba8c0@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070804191654.GI23762@furbychan.cocan.org>

On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 20:07 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> Well you don't need to use those bits.  I use ExtList and ExtString
> mainly.

ExtList is underpinned by Obj.magic - its "tail recursive" implementations
work by manipulating the internal representation of a list rather than
writing "proper" O'Caml (it's a piece of genius and frankly is how the
StdLib ought to do it...).

> Well, Windows is a world apart.  It has no packaging system to speak
> of, no versioning, no centralised repository, no installation policies
> of note.  In other words, it's where Linux was circa 1993.

Spoken by someone who sounds like he hasn't used Windows since 1993? :o) My
understanding is that in 1993 finding any PC hardware capable of running
Linux was the amusing game... rose-tinted spectacles, perhaps?


David


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-04  9:35 tmp123
2007-08-04 10:00 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-08-04 10:29 ` Philippe Wang
2007-08-04 11:22   ` skaller
2007-08-04 12:23     ` Philippe Wang
2007-08-04 13:39       ` skaller
2007-08-04 14:01         ` Philippe Wang
2007-08-04 14:45           ` skaller
2007-08-04 14:27       ` tmp123
2007-08-04 20:33       ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-08-04 14:37     ` tmp123
2007-08-04 15:09       ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-04 15:42         ` skaller
2007-08-04 16:21           ` Richard Jones
2007-08-04 17:17             ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-04 18:24               ` skaller
2007-08-04 17:54             ` skaller
2007-08-04 19:16               ` Richard Jones
2007-08-05 16:22                 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2007-08-05 16:41                   ` Xavier Leroy
2007-08-05 17:01                     ` David Allsopp
2007-08-04 17:35           ` Julien Moutinho
2007-08-04 18:04             ` skaller
2007-08-05  1:47             ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-05 11:44               ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-08-05 12:03                 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2007-08-05 12:31                   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-08-05 13:22                     ` Richard Jones
2007-08-05 20:47                       ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-08-05 13:17                 ` Richard Jones
2007-08-05 16:26           ` Xavier Leroy
2007-08-05 23:47             ` skaller
2007-08-04 15:36       ` skaller
2007-08-04 15:17     ` tmp123
2007-08-12 12:05       ` Andrej Bauer
2007-08-04 12:15 ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-04 12:36   ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-04 13:49     ` skaller
2007-08-04 12:16 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-04 12:58 ` Oliver Bandel

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